Re: scheduling, and gui clients (Win, Mac)

Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:

> - If you want to work on Mac OS X, be sure to interoperate with working
> copies checked out by the command-line client. One big glitch I see with
> MacCVSPro (and I expect the same from MacCVSClient) is that it, having
> reinvented the CVS client, keeps CVS meta-data in resource forks and so
> on, which /usr/bin/cvs uses those goober CVS/ turds in the working copy.
> On Mac OS X, you will want to use the SVN library for all SVN operations
> so that both the GUI and command-line clients play with each other's
> working copies nicely, even if you end up stuck with SVN/ turds, though
> I suppose you can get away with marking them invisible. :) That wasn't
> really an option with CVS, having no library, but it should be done here.

Well, all I can say is, whoever wants to reimplement the ra_dav stuff
for Mac clients instead of using (or porting) the SVN client library is
welcome to it, and bon voyage. :-)

> - And that means, that if you want the same client in Mac OS 9, we'll
> want libsvn ported to Mac OS 9, which probably means APR on Mac OS 9,
> which I know Ryan is interested in seeing happen, but may be a fair bit
> of work.

Both APR and neon, I think.

Hey, why isn't neon built on top of APR? (wish, wish ... hope, hope ...)

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